Too Hot to Wrangle

Heated Rivalry meets Magic Mike and Lyla Sage in this spicy, emotional gay cowboy romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Timothy Janovsky.

As the choreographer of Nashville's hottest Western burlesque show, Lads and Lassos, Gage Spencer needs fresh talent - fast. Ticket sales are down, his lead performer just walked, and his mum is fighting stage IV kidney disease. The last thing he needs is a distraction.

Then Frankie Harley opens his mouth.

Hot, brooding, and originally from Montana, Frankie has a gift for saying exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong moment. He's closed off, guarded, and the most infuriating man Gage has ever met. He's also, annoyingly, impossible to ignore.

As an apology for one too many blundering encounters, Frankie offers Gage cowboy lessons out at Whispering Hearts Guest Ranch. Lasso practice. Trail rides. Line dancing. Gage tells himself it's research - just inspiration for the show. It has nothing to do with the way Frankie looks in a pair of worn jeans.

But research has a way of turning into something else entirely. Knowing glances. A roll in the hayloft. Feelings neither of them planned for.

Soon, a viral video, a furious bride, and a few hard truths crack them both wide open. Gage wants to perform, not just choreograph. Frankie is running from a past he hasn't dealt with. Somewhere between the sequins and the saddles, they stopped pretending they were just having fun.

Then Frankie gets tested as a potential kidney donor for Gage's mum.

He wasn't supposed to be a match. But some things are just meant to be.